Marriage Quote by Lorrie Moore

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“But they'd had disagreements through the years, some of which I'd seen resolved, some I hadn't, and they always pressed on. Mother had told…

— Anita Lustrea

“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.”

— Marius Gabriel

“Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways…

— Jill Churchill

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be…

— Gwenn Wright

“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get…

— Anonymous